Fastening device for trousers.



F. H. SPRAGUB.

FASTBNING DEVICE FOR TROUSERS. APPLIUATION FILED 11017.30, 1909.

1,008,441, Patented Nov. 14, 1911.

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FREDERICK H. SPRAGUE, 0F ORANGE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR'OF ONE-HALF T0 FRANK L. GROUT, OF GRANGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 11, 1911.

Application filed November 30, 1909. Serial No. 530,564.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK H. SPRAGUE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Orange, county of Franklin, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Fastening Devices for Trousers, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawing, is a specification, like characters on the drawing repre senting like parts.

This invention has for its object to provide a novel fastening device for trousers which is adapted not only to secure together the waist band at the front but is also adapted to interlock with the belt buckle and hold the latter in place.

In the drawings wherein I have shown a selected embodiment ofmy invention, Figure 1 is a front view of a pair of trousers show ing my improvement applied thereto; Fig. 2 is an enlarged section on the line w-, Fig.,1=j; Fig. 3 is an enlarged section on the line jij-1% Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the fastening device.

Trousers which are intended for summer wear are usually made with belt straps under which the belt passes and which are designed for holding the belt in place, and while these belt straps retain the belt in position at the laces where they are situated, yet there 1s always a greater or less space existing at the front of the trousers between the two belt straps on either side of the front opening where no provision is made for keeping the belt in place. This space is where the belt buckle is commonly placed, and if a person is portly there is a tendency for the belt to crowd up above the waist band directly in front at the point where the trousers are buttoned together.-

This invention provides a fastening de vice which is entirely concealed by the belt but which effectively prevents the belt from becoming displaced at the front of the trousers.

In the referred embodiment of my invention this fastening device is in the nature of a button which serves both to button the trousers together at the waist band and also to engage the buckle and prevent the latter from crowding up out of position.

In the drawings 3 designates s, pair of trousers lof any suitable or usual construction which are made with the usual belt straps 4: beneath which the belt v5 fs passed.

My improved fastening device is in the nature of a button 6 which will preferably have the shape shown in Fig. 4, that is, it is provided with the'body portion 7 having the eyes or apertures S'loy which it may be sewed to the trousers in usual manner, and it is also provided with the beak or nose 9 which'extends downwardly from the body of the button. The fastening device is sewed or otherwise fastened to the inner edge 10 of the trousers and the outer or overlapping edge 11 is provided with a buttcnhole l2 through which the button is inserted for buttoning the trousers together in usual way. When the device is used as a belt retainer, the tongue 15 of the buckle 16 is slipped under the nose 9, as shown in Fig. 3, and this will preferably be done before the belt is buckled, that is, in buckling the belt, the wearer will first slip the tongue 15 under the nose 9 and then insert the end of the belt through the loop of the buckle and place the tongue in the appropriate hole in the buckle.

My improved fastening device is of such a size that when the buckle is engaged thereby the buckle and the-belt will entirely cover the fastening device so that it will not be visible.

The engagement of the nose 9 with the tongue of the buckle will operate tc securely hold the buckle in position and will counteract any tendency of the belt to slip up over the waist band of the trousers at the front. If desired, the nose 9 may be provided on the back side with the groove 14 in which the tongue 15 of the buckle is receive d. This 4groove will act as an additional sa fe-guard against any accidental displacement of the buckle.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 4:-

A combined fastening device and belt retainer for trousers comprising a buttonshaped body provided with holes fer sewin it to the trousers and adapted to be passed through a buttonhole, said body having a name'to this specification in the presence of downwardly-extending bmkle,-engagingl nose two subscribingy witnesses. sltuated in the plu-11e of the body' portion and adapted to overlie the tongue of the FREDERICK H' SPRAGUE 5 buckle and provided with e transverse Witnesses:

tongue-receiving groove. LENA M. BACON,

Intestmony whereof, I have signed my EDNA E. JOHNSON.

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Washington, D@ 0J 

